ABOUT Larry Wu:
Co-Founder. Larry is a food industry executive with over 25 years experience in the successful development and commercialization of food and beverage innovations. His background includes 6 years as R&D director at Starbucks Coffee Company from 2000-2006. His knowledge of the food industry and its key players is unparalleled.

Kent Rhodes talks about the international side of the SmartCup business.

About French Press
French press systems deliver a superior flavor profile, smoothness and finish for both coffee and tea. The XPress lid technology delivers the preferred qualities of the coffee & tea drinking experience to everyday coffee & tea lovers at an affordable price.

With the XPress lid, operators can now bring high quality coffee to everyone inexpensively and quickly in a transportable and recyclable/disposable unit while increasing their sales and profits.

What comes to Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas… You can take home a custom $50,0000 Chopper built by Kustoms Inc. and Chop Docs. You can also watch the custom XPress Lid chopper being built on Bikernet.com or on the pages of Cycle Source Magazine. Get all the details right here…

Kent Rhodes, CEO of SmartCup, provides the latest update about SmartCup’s XPress lid French press system during the 2012 SCAA event.. This is the world’s first French press in a lid that is disposable and recyclable.

Improving Coffee Roasters’ Business

How can roasters in the specialty coffee business open up their entire bean inventory and expose enthusiasts to better tasting and higher quality coffees? In a word, XPress, it provides a tool that will allow roasters to upsell and increase their market share within their independent cafe accounts. Kent Rhodes, SmartCup CEO, talks about using the XPress lid.

SmartCup is demonstrating how operators can offer patrons handcrafted tea lattes of their choice utilizing premium whole leaf tea. The XPress lid presses the tea with a mesh press that allows more of the tea to be in direct contact while brewing, versus other methods.

Using a press enhances and maintains the latte’s tea flavor throughout consumption. XPress lid, combined with quality ingredients, delivers a premium flavor in each cup.